TTUHSC Researchers and Heroes

They come from all over the world. They come from the finest research facilities in
the world. They come to Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center where they find
a home and support for their inquisitive minds, searching for answers to the diseases
that plague people in West Texas and around the world. They find answers in bits and
pieces putting in long hours – hoping those bits and pieces lead to life-changing
solutions. They are researchers, teachers, mentors, scholars. They are also heroes.

Featured Researcher - Afzal A. Siddiqui, Ph.D.

A Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) researcher has received a
grant for schistosomiasis vaccine research from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Afzal A. Siddiqui, Ph.D., a Grover E. Murray Distinguished Professor at the TTUHSC
School of Medicine, received an additional $2,394,006 grant for the pre-clinical development
of a vaccine for the human parasitic disease, schistosomiasis. MORE

Student Research Week

Designed to enable you to meet with our researchers, explore our research and discuss
the impact it can have on health and our society. This is an interdisciplinary event organized annually by Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
(GSBS) students of TTUHSC in Lubbock. MORE

Research Across Campuses

Research at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at the Permian Basin includes
translational and basic science, clinical, and global and rural health research. The
main areas of research are colorectal and cervical cancer, fetal programming of adult
diseases, placental physiology, pregnancy-related maternal cardiovascular adaptation,
lactobacilli physiology and microbiology, and treatment of depression. Some of the
unique tools used are Raman spectral analyzer, placental ex vivo perfusion, brain
stimulation and biofilm composition, and 3D printing. Researchers at TTUHSC at the
Permian Basin are assisted in their efforts by the Research Advisory Committee. Also,
each year, research done by students and residents is showcased at the Permian Basin
Research Forum in collaboration with the University of Texas at the Permian Basin,
Odessa College, Midland Colleges, and Ector County Independent School District. MORE

Since its inception, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Amarillo
has seen dramatic increases in extramural funding, with a 64 percent increase in the
past decade. In the past two years, cancer and blood-brain barrier researchers have
received around 30 new and continuing extramural grant awards and received $4.6 million
for research in fiscal year 2017. This success is one of the reasons that the American
Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) consistently ranks TTUHSC School of Pharmacy
in the top half of U.S. Pharmacy schools in extramural research awards. The researchers
at SOP frequently publish their findings in high impact research journals like Nature
Communications, JNCI, Oncogene, Cancer Research, JBC etc. and are highly sought speakers
at national and international conferences. They also serve at NIH and Department of
Defense study sections. MORE

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Research Opening Gates for Better Targeting Drugs

Researchers at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Department
of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics and the Center for Membrane Protein. Research
have determined the kinetic cycle of a potassium channel at atomic resolution. MORE